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Falwell for President!!

Bruce

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Falwell for President

His influence may be diminished but his zeal is undaunted. Evangelist Jerry Falwell is on a mission to keep a like-minded Republican in the White House and get at least one more conservative judge on the Supreme Court.

Despite his years in the trenches of America's culture wars, Falwell -- who founded the Moral Majority political movement in 1979 and helped propel the rise of the religious right -- said a major victory in his broader crusade to restore the country's moral righteousness has so far eluded him.

With abortion still legal, prayer banned in public schools and pornography rife, he sees a long struggle ahead. For now, he is focusing on voter registration drives and rallying the faithful with his eyes on the twin prizes of the 2008 presidential election and control of the Supreme Court.
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I, for one, welcome our new zealous Christian overlord! :eye-poppi
 
Another fine political mind here mentioned ZOD a couple days ago. I read the link. Zod is good, persuasive. One problem he may run into is campaigning in the West Side of Chicago and commanding its residents to bow down before him. :eek:

Makes me wince just thinking about it.
 
Bruce said:
Falwell for President
I, for one, welcome our new zealous Christian overlord! :eye-poppi
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Less than 70% of the eligible register and vote. If Jerry can energize a bunch of non voters, he stands to succeed in his aims.

Rudy Giuliani is electable if he can convince a sector of the electorate that abortion being allowed to become a decisive issue was a tactical mistake that need not be perpetuated.

Jerry Falwell may be the best friend Hillary Clinton ever had.

DR
 
Another five years and I'll be eligible to run for the presidency...

I promise a most entertaining regime if elected.
 
Wasn't (still is?) the "Moral Majority" an oxymoron?

A double one at that!

Charlie (free gift to whoever answers) Monoxide
 
Charlie Monoxide said:
Wasn't (still is?) the "Moral Majority" an oxymoron?

A double one at that!

Charlie (free gift to whoever answers) Monoxide
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So, what do you want to call them, Charlie? The Puritanical Plurality? I don't think such a name would work, since Spiro Agnew's infamous alliterative "pusillanimous pussyfooters" retained a certain, well mocked currency at about the time Falwell's movement took off.

The Moral Majority are indeed moral, based on their platform. That you don't seem to like their morals does not render the platform void.

FWIW, I think the "Moral Majority" tag was developed as a counterpoint to the Nixon era "Silent Majority" tag.

DR
 
Darth Rotor said:
So, what do you want to call them, Charlie? The Puritanical Plurality? I don't think such a name would work, since Spiro Agnew's infamous alliterative "pusillanimous pussyfooters" retained a certain, well mocked currency at about the time Falwell's movement took off.

The Moral Majority are indeed moral, based on their platform. That you don't seem to like their morals does not render the platform void.

FWIW, I think the "Moral Majority" tag was developed as a counterpoint to the Nixon era "Silent Majority" tag.

DR
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Yeah but Darth -

Given your statement, ANY group's platform can therefore be considered moral. KKK's platform. Al Qaeda's platform. The Moonies platform. Elton John's platform shoes.

This arrogant person, Falwell, has the gall to preach to his flock that Goddy is a gonna Rapture the joint in the 21st century. And he knows this - how?

The Greek word for Rapture is Harpazo, according to Wiki. Harpazo. Is that like if Harpo and Zeppo Marx come back we all know the end is near? Should I put on my greasepaint eyebrows and mustache now?
 
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"I think I'll vote Libertarian."
 
KingMerv00 said:
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"I think I'll vote Libertarian."
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In Tinky Winky's defense, I'd like to point out that that isn't really his purse. He mugged an old lady for it.

Er, not because he wanted it for itself. It's full of drugs, that's why he wanted it.

Er, he didn't want the drugs for himself, of course, he was going to sell them.

But he was going to give the money to a good cause, something to do with defending the faithful against imperialistic Zionism.

I should totally be a spokesman for somebody, and give press conferences.
 
Falwell was born in '33, says WIKI. He'd be 75 if and when inaugurated. That's old.

"On May 30, 2005, USA Today reported Falwell's condition was upgraded from critical to stable and removed him from a ventilator after congestive heart failure."

Plus he made those 9/11 remarks:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen." (By "this" he meant 9/11)
 
steverino said:
Plus he made those 9/11 remarks:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen." (By "this" he meant 9/11)
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It is not the first stupid thing he ever said, and it probably won't be the last.

ConspiRaider: Slippery Slope much when you go hyperboling? :p You rolled a seven-ten split, though I liked the Elton John platform shoes ref. :D

DR
 
TragicMonkey said:
In Tinky Winky's defense, I'd like to point out that that isn't really his purse. He mugged an old lady for it.

Er, not because he wanted it for itself. It's full of drugs, that's why he wanted it.

Er, he didn't want the drugs for himself, of course, he was going to sell them.

But he was going to give the money to a good cause, something to do with defending the faithful against imperialistic Zionism.

I should totally be a spokesman for somebody, and give press conferences.
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That's what his poppa bear said. :rolleyes:
 
Darth Rotor said:
So, what do you want to call them, Charlie? The Puritanical Plurality? I don't think such a name would work, since Spiro Agnew's infamous alliterative "pusillanimous pussyfooters" retained a certain, well mocked currency at about the time Falwell's movement took off.

The Moral Majority are indeed moral, based on their platform. That you don't seem to like their morals does not render the platform void.

FWIW, I think the "Moral Majority" tag was developed as a counterpoint to the Nixon era "Silent Majority" tag.

DR
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We could call them "nutty nattering nabobs of nastiness", to channel and paraphrase quotes from the 60's.

Calling oneself "moral" does not imbue "morality" on that individual.

Begging on TV by using dubious stories of afterlife and a book from the bronze age doesn't rate as "moral" neither.

The numerous nasty things Falwell has said over the years (ie Playboy execs who died in a air crash, was deserved) certainly doesn't bestow "morality" on him as well.

As for the "majority" part, only in Falwell's cathedral, and even then, I'd question that, would 50% +1 be part of that odious group.

Charlie (rational minority) Monoxide
 
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